Word: holocaustal
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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ETHICS What kind of people rescued Jews during the Holocaust...
...World War II. Architects of a genocidal collapse of the human soul, they remind everyone that indifference to the suffering of others is perhaps the most pervasive law of nature. And yet, 50 years later, some less familiar faces are beginning to emerge from the terrible history of the Holocaust. They belong to the handful of ordinary people who not only saw the horror around them but also risked their lives out of compassion for its victims: those under Nazi rule who dared to hide Jews in their houses and apartments and on their farms. According to Samuel and Pearl...
...elsewhere? That question sent an unlikely pair of friends, photographer Gay Block and children's book writer Malka Drucker, on a three-year journey to photograph and interview 105 rescuers from 10 countries. The often surprising answers are chronicled in their book, Rescuers: Portraits of Moral Courage in the Holocaust (Holmes & Meier; $29.95 soft cover), and in a photography exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art in Manhattan, which runs until April...
...rescuers have not escaped controversy. Their very existence has been denied by some Jews who feared that the horror of the Holocaust might be whitewashed by acknowledging their presence. On the other hand, some rescuers have received hate mail and death threats for their long-ago roles in sheltering Jews. Yet Block notes that most people are strongly receptive to the rescuers' stories. "There is a hunger for examples of goodness," she says. "People want to find out that we can learn from goodness and not from evil...
...Fire, is at Lincoln Center after a sold-out run at the smaller Playwrights Horizons. Structurally, the problems are the opposite of the Korder play's. The first half, about a family dispute over a publishing empire, surges with believable life. The second half, about the clan's Holocaust-scarred patriarch, clanks with calculation...